Note to self: STOP SPAZZING!!!
Apr. 18th, 2007 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
candylandOkay, choir is over. Here's the basics of what happened:
It's an early out today, so we had a shortened class period today. I wasn't so much worried about filling up the class period as I was handling the piano.
There's another student teacher here from a different school. She's technically doing her elementary placement right now, but she hangs out with the high school a lot during her down time. She's also a piano major. I feel slightly inadequate >.>
Well, she was supposed to be in the elementary room during the choir period...but she shocked the hell out of me by agreeing to stay in here and handle the piano stuff while I directed O.O She said that the elementary class going on was second grade, and she's already taught second grade twice.
In short...it went pretty well. We ran one of the girl's pieces (once with parts, once with accompaniment), and then one of the guy's pieces (in the same manner), and then my favorite piece that they're doing, "We Sing of Golden Mornings." I LOVE THAT PIECE!! And they do sing it quite well :D There's another piece they're doing that I hadn't heard all the way through, so we started that one...and then the bell rang about two-thirds of the way through it.
Things I did well: I did a pretty decent job on conducting, even though I was sight-reading half of it ^^;; My fellow student teacher complimented me on my cut-offs (which is actually the thing I have to think about the hardest).
Things to work on: Make sure I fix at least one thing in each song each time we do it. Otherwise, we're just running the same thing over and over again. I did that in the girl's piece (the pitch was sagging) and in "We Sing of Golden Mornings" when the tenors part got completely lost ^___^
Whew...and now, to worry about what I'm going to do tomorrow! My coop's going to play for me, which rocks. So I just need to focus on writing a lesson plan and teaching it. I need to catch him or email him and ask if there's anything specific he wants me to do.
So...I LIVE!! :D :D :D And if today was any indication, I think tomorrow's going to be just fine :3
Oh yeah--and I need to start working over my piece for the junior high. I get to direct them at the concert. The piece is "Make Them Hear You," an arrangement from the musical Ragtime. I'm really excited about it. The junior high honor choir last night was lovely, BTW. I just had a few minor issues with the tempos the guest conductors took things at. If I ever have a junior high choir, I am DEFINITELY teaching them "Riversong." We'll just take it about ten metronome clicks slower.
Should probably wrap this up. I've got lunch duty in about three minutes, and then I think I'm monitoring the junior high study hall. So yeah. I'm okay now. LOOOOOOOOVES!! :D
It's an early out today, so we had a shortened class period today. I wasn't so much worried about filling up the class period as I was handling the piano.
There's another student teacher here from a different school. She's technically doing her elementary placement right now, but she hangs out with the high school a lot during her down time. She's also a piano major. I feel slightly inadequate >.>
Well, she was supposed to be in the elementary room during the choir period...but she shocked the hell out of me by agreeing to stay in here and handle the piano stuff while I directed O.O She said that the elementary class going on was second grade, and she's already taught second grade twice.
In short...it went pretty well. We ran one of the girl's pieces (once with parts, once with accompaniment), and then one of the guy's pieces (in the same manner), and then my favorite piece that they're doing, "We Sing of Golden Mornings." I LOVE THAT PIECE!! And they do sing it quite well :D There's another piece they're doing that I hadn't heard all the way through, so we started that one...and then the bell rang about two-thirds of the way through it.
Things I did well: I did a pretty decent job on conducting, even though I was sight-reading half of it ^^;; My fellow student teacher complimented me on my cut-offs (which is actually the thing I have to think about the hardest).
Things to work on: Make sure I fix at least one thing in each song each time we do it. Otherwise, we're just running the same thing over and over again. I did that in the girl's piece (the pitch was sagging) and in "We Sing of Golden Mornings" when the tenors part got completely lost ^___^
Whew...and now, to worry about what I'm going to do tomorrow! My coop's going to play for me, which rocks. So I just need to focus on writing a lesson plan and teaching it. I need to catch him or email him and ask if there's anything specific he wants me to do.
So...I LIVE!! :D :D :D And if today was any indication, I think tomorrow's going to be just fine :3
Oh yeah--and I need to start working over my piece for the junior high. I get to direct them at the concert. The piece is "Make Them Hear You," an arrangement from the musical Ragtime. I'm really excited about it. The junior high honor choir last night was lovely, BTW. I just had a few minor issues with the tempos the guest conductors took things at. If I ever have a junior high choir, I am DEFINITELY teaching them "Riversong." We'll just take it about ten metronome clicks slower.
Should probably wrap this up. I've got lunch duty in about three minutes, and then I think I'm monitoring the junior high study hall. So yeah. I'm okay now. LOOOOOOOOVES!! :D
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Date: 2007-04-18 04:30 pm (UTC)And I didn't know you could be a piano major...
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Date: 2007-04-20 03:59 pm (UTC)I think you major in instrumental music with the piano as your instrument of focus :3